Credit: Bob Coecke
Bob Coecke
Founder and CEO
Prof. Bob Coecke is Founder and CEO of Relational Intelligence. Before that he was Chief Scientist of Quantinuum, 2020-2025, and Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at the Department of Computer Science of Oxford University, 2001-2020, where he built and led the 50 member Quantum Group. He is also Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.
He pioneered Categorical Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Picturalism, ZX-calculus, DisCoCat, Quantum Natural Language Processing and Quantum Music, and is author of the books Picturing Quantum Processes and Quantum in Pictures. Using the latter, he showed that everyone can understand quantum. He also has been called a pioneer of Industrial Music, he produced the 1st piece of music with a quantum computer, and invented the Quantum Guitar. He performed the first ever Quantum Symphony, called "Quantum Universe".
He received the 2024 IEEE-LiCS test-of-time award. He founded the Quantum Physics and Logic and Applied Category Theory communities. His Royal Institution talk on quantum picturalism was the 5th most watched science talk of 2025.